She could find herself convicted of murder for a third and final time in just a few short weeks, but Amanda Knox could actually be in a celebratory mood.

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According to The Seattle Times, Knox, 27, is engaged to rocker boyfriend Colin Sutherland, who recently moved to Seattle from Brooklyn. However, the couple's happiness could soon find a major obstacle standing in its way.

Knox, who was convicted of murdering her former roommate, Meredith Kercher, in the Perugia, Italy flat they shared back in 2007 for a second time last year, is scheduled to have her final appeal heard at Italy's Court of Cassation on March 25. That trial will either uphold the conviction reached in 2014, and could result in Knox being extradited back to Italy to begin serving a 28 ½ year sentence, or could set her up for yet another trial, with similar potential results.

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According to the newspaper, Knox's engagement was disclosed by a source close to her family, and confirmed by Knox herself in an email.

Knox and her legal struggles have been in the spotlight since Kercher was found brutally murdered in 2007. At the time, Knox, her ex-boyfriend, Raffale Sollecito, and a third man, Rudy Guede were all arrested in connection to Kercher's murder. Guede's trial was fast-tracked, and he began serving a 16-year sentence in an Italian prison.

Knox and Sollecito were also convicted of the crime in 2009, but served only two years of their sentences before an appeals court threw out the charges against them. Knox returned to the U.S. afterwards, but her victory was short-lived after Italian prosecutors revealed plans to have the case re-tried again in 2013-resulting in she and Sollecito being convicted last year.

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